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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
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I like the way block manuscript lends itself to freeform. I did not like making all of the letters connect to each other in fast, unbroken strokes, which happened to be completely arbitrary. The "J" in my name is adapted from the Phoenician "G" and the "A" is the Phoenician "R." The "C" and "Q" in my name represent the waning and waxing crescents of the moon. I thought of all of this after consulting a World Book encyclopedia, and I haven't looked back.
I brought dinner over to Stephenson because the kids are still sick, and some workmen working across the street rummaged through their unlocked vehicles. Only change was taken, but the console was strewn with the pocket psalms and a book of tropical fish. I remember putting it there a while back, > 5 yes ago after a hunting and gathering day.
https://books.google.com/books?id=hpN4hu9n2LsC&pg=PA1&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=SEkzkHbuEVcC&pg=PA65&dq=learning+theory+rewriting+notes&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrgcaQ_5KFAxUinokEHTE4BBAQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&q=learning%20theory%20rewriting%20notes&f=false
The above picture is a purple bearded iris seed pod dessicated by summer. They were there with hostas in the backyard of 2811 Stephenson, in front of a bay window of the laundry room in the basement. I would be doing whatever, then an indigo bunting or a rose-breasted grosbeak or a herd of deer would suddenly appear at the birdfeeder.
The matrices there are rewritten as the Henderson-Hasselbach equation, and I had to solve for the pKa to find the pH many, many times, in all its flavors, to prevent missteps on the exam.
https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Bellarmine_University/BU%3A_Chem_104_(Christianson)/Phase_2%3A_Understanding_Chemical_Reactions/7%3A_Buffer_Systems/7.2%3A_Practical_Aspects_of_Buffers#:~:text=Recall%20that%20according%20to%20the,or%20minus%20one%20pH%20unit.
Yes, I will rewrite my notes. I had >25 note cards, so will make 50. I will make them every evening.
Today's letter involves the bent and elongated forms of the Hebrew letter nun. I am making up some study I missed yesterday, this morning.
https://books.google.com/books?id=T1A5m925ECsC&pg=PA125&dq=mishlei+20:27&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq9JnMjuCGAxVgG9AFHfguDyMQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=mishlei%2020%3A27&f=false
נֵ֣ר is ner or lamp/candle. Proverbs/Mishlei 27 is kaf-zayin, which equates to 27. It does not matter in Hebrew the order of ordinal. They still equal the same number backwards or forwards.
https://www.pealim.com/dict/3936-ner/
https://www.sefaria.org/Proverbs.20.27?lang=bi&with=Sheets
ג'קי - gimel-yud-qof-yud - is the foreshortened form of my name.
ז'קלין - zayin-yud-qof-lamed-yud-nun - is the long form.
To backtrack, marcher à l'arrière, faire marche arrière.
I like the shortened form, to start with gimel, as it runs to perform a kindness, whereas zayin cuts in judgment. The upright/elongated nun is the aspiration, to be finally upright.
https://books.google.com/books?id=_s8SzHm3yJsC&pg=PA316&dq=tehillim+45+my+tongue+is+the+pen+of+a+skillful+scribe&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq9qG5o-CGAxV1FVkFHTlAC7EQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=tehillim%2045%20my%20tongue%20is%20the%20pen%20of%20a%20skillful%20scribe&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=mDBCiDL6XdsC&pg=PA114&dq=achav+izevel+navos+vineyard&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju6KeFpOCGAxXHEVkFHTKkD5MQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=achav%20izevel%20navos%20vineyard&f=false
https://outorah.org/series/3758/
https://ouwomen.org/nach/
Malachi Beis is Kings II.
I listen to YUTorah for halachic answers, which are spoken to undergrads who seemingly know as much as I do.*
Stern College NYU is on Lexington Avenue, and the lectures are frequently interrupted by sirens of various kinds. The elite send their children here to get some morals, which are harder to cultivate in their cases.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_york_lexington_ave_50_street.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
https://www.yutorah.org/
A bigger test in life is to be satisfied with seeming abundance.
My day is like this: after procuring the part, the twice-delayed repairman came and inserted it for 326.48 this morning. A small price to pay to get him out. I have a leaking oil valve (picture sent to my phone from the oil change center), and I have to drive the old Mercedes while it is in the shop, which is honest but expensive, for an indefinite period of time.
Chaos in two houses requires cleaning from room to room. My nephew liked the Woody doll with the pullstring and my niece might find something to do among her haul.
My used volumes of Artscroll Bereshit contain a business card of Jerrie Saul Colish, Esquire, whose address is a FedEx box on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn. He settled his student loan debt in the eighties with debt restructuring, and an IRS judgment was entered and searchable, as well.
Many ordeals in all lives. It always surprises me how much it costs to live. There is always a means of sustenance, and a way of obtaining more, but it is so competitive and cutthroat.
Note: do not get the service warranty with an appliance.* The generative AI that arranges a service call raises the expectation that a person will come, and they do not come. A time void many times over results, with shyster repairmen and errands for parts, and more time wasted, and thrice payments for labor and install. The prejudice against the trades and tradesmen is in part true: being late and unreliable and psychopathically stringing along the customer for a month. I will buy a new appliance before changing a door switch.
*Bereshit or Bereishit
https://www.artscroll.com/Books/9780899063621.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqX-3G7_i4Z0TmKd3l6QtiUcWNGON2ePvd-2DjdwKftfJacOKfQ
We took the kids to Five Guys and walked in the abandoned mall, where I saw a cath lab physician who regularly works with me walking with his disabled son and wife; disabled, as in lurching along and vocal stimming. I have a newfound respect for his suffering.
Atticus has Cornish game hen feet from being carried, so he had to walk the full lengths of the arcade. Siena walked in this mall in the evenings.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31605552/
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/107899?lang=bi
The Steinsaltz texts I have read and I have in my possession are pictured: Teshuvah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose and The Essential Talmud.
The Candle of God and Thoughts on the Parasha, to be read, among others.
The Candle of God arrived, and it is at my bedside.
Reading now. I started it this morning. This text came today, which is next.
Rav Avigdor Miller's A Divine Madness 2nd Ed (320)
We should definitely have a heart to heart.
The fact that we come back to this; again, I take as a sign that my suggestion (with amendments) remains feasible.
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